Posted on 30 June 2008
Usually when you insert a USB flash drive into your computer, Windows asks you ‘What do you want Windows to do?’. But it asks only at the time of insertion. Once you close the window and later, if you want to access the drive, you need to navigate through either My Computer of Windows Explorer.
If [...]
Tags: Blue Onion Software, Desk Drive, flash drive, pen drive, Removable Media, Shortcut
Posted on 29 June 2008
Firefox 3.0 is surely faster than its previous version. And with a little tweaking and optimization Firefox 3.0 can be made to perform even faster than it does out of the box.
One way is to do the tweaking manually by accessing about:config and editing the parameters. Editing the configuration manually may not be everybody’s cup [...]
Tags: about:config, browse faster, faster firefox, Firefox, Firetune, speed browsing, speed firefox
Posted on 29 June 2008
Once in a while you come across an application or a utility that makes you wonder how you managed to get things done without it.
Lupo PenSuite is one such utility.
Lupo PenSuite is a portable collection of over 185 applications and tools. All the applications have been neatly categorized and can be started through the bundled [...]
Tags: flash drive, Lupo Pensuite, Portable applications, portable softwares, softwares for pendrive
Posted on 28 June 2008
Suppose you have to type out characters like ®, ©, £ etc or for that matter any character which has no key on a keyboard to directly enter them. How do you do that?
Characters like ®, © etc are called special characters. In Windows, each special character is associated with a 4 digit numeric number, [...]
Tags: Alt Key, character map, charmap, special characters
Posted on 27 June 2008
If you are a Firefox user, then most probably you have updated to Firefox 3 by now. Apart from being faster, leaner and better looking than the previous version, Firefox 3 has some great new features built into it, one of which is the smarter address bar.
One of the most used area in a browser [...]
Tags: awesomebar, firefox 3, firefox address bar, Firefox. Browser, location bar, smart bar
Posted on 24 June 2008
In Firefox, zooming in and zooming out is very easy. Hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel away from you to Zoom in and towards you to Zoom out.
Tags: Firefox, Firefox Accessibility, Zoom, Zooming
Posted on 23 June 2008
How often have you been frustrated by the ’speed’ with which Windows shuts down. It seems to take ages, especially when you are in a hurry.
If you normally shut down Windows from the ‘Turn Off Computer‘ on the Start menu, then here is an alternative that works almost like magic.
Tags: fast shut down, fast shutdown, shut down, shutdown, shutdown windows, Windows